A Day in the Life with Linda Greenhouse

A “Day in the Life” with Linda Greenhouse
Wednesday., November 18, 12:30 – 1:30pm
Room 124

On
November 18, the Yale Law Women’s “Day in the Life” series will feature
Linda Greenhouse. Ms. Greenhouse is Knight Distinguished
Journalist-in-Residence and Joseph Goldstein Lecturer in Law at Yale
Law School. She assumed those positions in January 2009, after 30 years
covering the Supreme Court of the United States for The New York Times.

Ms. Greenhouse received numerous journalism awards during her 40-year career at the Times,
including a Pulitzer Prize in 1998 for her coverage of the Supreme
Court; the American Political Science Association’s Carey McWilliams
Award for “a major journalistic contribution to our understanding of
politics” in 2002; and the John Chancellor Award for Excellence in
Journalism from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of
Pennsylvania, in 2004. Also in 2004, she received the Goldsmith Career
Award for Excellence in Journalism from Harvard’s Kennedy School. In
2008, the non-partisan Constitution Project gave her its annual award
for constitutional commentary. Her biography of Justice Harry A.
Blackmun, Becoming Justice Blackmun, was published in 2005.

Ms.
Greenhouse is one of two non-lawyer honorary members of the American
Law Institute, which awarded her its Henry Friendly Medal. She is a
member of the governing councils of the American Philosophical Society,
which awarded her its Henry Allen Moe Prize for writing in the
humanities and jurisprudence, and of the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. In 2009, she was elected to the Harvard University Board of
Overseers. She is a graduate of Radcliffe College, Harvard, and earned
a Master of Studies in Law degree from Yale Law School, which she
attended on a Ford Foundation fellowship.

Yale Law Women’s “Day in the Life” series features women who have
pursued diverse career paths after law school, including those who have
worked at law firms, in government, in business, and at non-profits.